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Jul 23
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Week of the 9th of July

Tags : #atlanticsalmon #flyfishing Braelangwell Kyle of Sutherland Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

Well, we certainly got the rain we have been looking for. It was unsettled, to say the least with water heights between 3ft to 3 inches to 7.5ft during the week. 7 salmon 9 grilse and 5 sea trout were landed. 15 fish were also lost a good number of these were just before landing.

On the 11th Fen Howieson got us off the mark with a 10lb salmon from the Morail with 2ft 3 on the gauge.

The 12th was the best day with 8 in the book, 7 of them to Fen Howieson and 1 to Chris Plank. With 2ft 6 on the gauge, 3 came from the Morail and the others came from Frenchmans, Millers, Burnmouth, Kennel run and Boat. Fen lost 3 other fish from Kennel run and Gardners run.

On the 13th the river was running at 3 inches and 4 were landed, Bob Barclay caught a 6lber from the neck of the Washerwoman, Chris Plank caught a grilse from Lower Craigs and Fen Howieson had 2, one from Charlies and the other from Rock. He also had a sea trout of 3lb from Bank. Fen hooked a big fish in Bank which after cruising around for a while decided to go out the tail of the pool and down the Gruinards side of the island when it then threw the hook.

On the 14 with 0″ on the gauge, Harry McCombie landed 2, one from the neck of the Washerwoman on his 4th cast and one from the head of Contractors on his 2nd cast.

On the 15th Chris Plank caught a 2lb grilse from Millers with 5ft on the gauge. The day started with over 7ft on the gauge, it dropped to 3ft 6 but we had some huge thunderstorms resulting in a rising river late afternoon.

It was really good to see Bob Barclay and Harry McCombie after a gap of around 10 years. Harry at 81 walked the whole of the bottom beat every day.

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Jul 23
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Week if the 2nd of July

Tags : #atlanticsalmon #flyfishing #flyonly Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

The Cameron party landed two salmon and four grilse for their week after we had some very much welcomed rain. We had the best and most consistent water since the second week of March. Unbelievably, it was the first week this season that we fished the top beat with decent water.

On the 3rd David Kleeman landed a grilse with long tail sea lice from the tail of the Morail. We went straight to Kennel run where he had another two grilse on briefly.

Two salmon and a grilse were landed on Wednesday. David Kleeman landed a fresh grilse in Kennel run, Graham Wilson caught a 10lber from Field and Lizzie Blair caught a 8lber from Upper Craigs.

On the 7th 2two grilse were landed David Kleeman landed his 3rd fish of the week from Kennel run. Another fresh 5lber and Iain Mackie caught a fresh 4lber from the Washerwoman at 10pm.

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Jul 23
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Week of the 25th of June

Tags : #atlanticsalmon #catchandrelease #flyfishing #flyonly Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Sutherland

Yet again the rain missed us until Thursday, giving us a lift in water for Friday.

After the river settled we caught 2 from Lower Craigs. Georgia Browne caught a 10 lb salmon on a cascade variant then Rollo Grandy caught a 8lber shortly afterwards.

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Jun 23
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Spring round-up

Tags : #flyfishing #springfishing Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

Our spring has been dominated by low water and fewer fish than usual. In the 10 weeks that the lodge has been let we have had 7 weeks with little or no water which has really skewed the returns. We thought there would be a good spring when on the week of the 26th March at least 17 salmon were landed below us. With the water being cold the fish didn’t seem keen to run and we ended the week blank. That was our only blank week which is amazing considering the low water. The water temperature rose quickly letting the fish run straight through us and the first salmon were seen at the Glencalvie falls on the 6th of April a full month earlier than most years.

We landed 23 salmon to the end of May well down on the 61 landed last year. The last fish of the spring was landed by Jonathan Sykes, a cracker at 18lb from the neck of the Morail on a Silver stoat micro conehead. On the 1st of June, Rob Sloss managed to tempt a salmon from the neck of Millers which was good going considering the water was off the bottom of the gauge

On the upside, the first three weeks of May saw fish running steadily through the beat. Bow waves of fish were seen moving through pools during the day and fish going over the Morail falls were really encouraging considering reports from elsewhere. This seemed to peak in the third week. We saw fish on the bottom beat in the morning, the top beat in the afternoon then sealiced fish were being caught at Glencalvie in the evening.

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May 23
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Week of the 14th of May

Tags : #catchandrelease #flyfishing #flyonly #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Kyle of Sutherland Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

Again the forecast was wrong, so we had very little water for the week except for a small rise midweek.

Despite the low water fish were seen running in various places. On the 17th Jonty Goodchild caught 2, 1 from the neck of the Washerwoman and 1 from the Rock. Both on a quarter-inch tungsten red Francis weighing 10 and 12lb.

On the 18th Peter Jones caught an 11lb salmon from the Washerwoman and Tim Cross caught an 8lber from the Rock. ” other fish were lost.

Gruinards caught 4 with a further 3 from Glencalvie. Most of the fish were fresh if not sea liced.

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May 23
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Week of the 8th May

Tags : #flyfishing #flyonly #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Salmon fishing Scotland

Yet again we were forecast rain but yet again it didn’t materialise.

On the 8th with minus 11″ on the gauge, Rick Verbeeten landed a 7lb salmon from the Washerwoman on a 10 Red Ally.

The river came up on the 11th and was very dirty. At 5 am it was 9 inches dropping to -4″ by 7.30 pm. 5 salmon were caught, all from the Morail.

Dave Barnfield started the ball rolling with the first grilse of the season at 6.30am. Roger Brackpool caught an 11lb salmon just before lunch carrying long tail lice. Between 5.15pm and 7.15pm Dave Barnfield, Alan Lutman and Dave Bell caught 1 each. This was Dave Bells first salmon at 9lb. All were returned safely.

Throughout the week salmon were seen running with bow waves appearing in various pools along with them going over the Morail falls and the falls at the Steps pool on Amat which was encouraging.

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May 23
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April

Tags : #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon fishing Scotland

April consisted of Easterly wind, snow and unseasonably warm weather in random order.

The Alston party caught 1 salmon for their week, a 7lber at 20.10pm on the Saturday night with a Collie on the surface in a bitterly east wind. Oscar Hedgecoe was standing on the gauge rock at the neck of the Morail when the fish took.

Colin Campbell’s party caught 2 for their week.

On the 12th Mary Nicholson caught 1 in the Morail on the back of a rise in water. In the afternoon there were fish showing all over the Morail and down into Kennel run before they disappeared over the falls. On the 13th Colin Campbell caught an 11lber in Gardners with 3 inches on the gauge.

The Arkwright party caught 1 for their week. Thomas Arkwright caught the 7lber from the Rock on the Monday afternoon. The weather warmed up and by Thursday the water temperature reached 57f !!

Last week the Gilmore party caught 4, 3 of them on Friday off a rise in water to 6 inches on our gauge. Alasdair Mackie caught 1 from the Morail at 8lb, Andrew Elder caught 1 in Gardners at 7lb and Bill Gilmore caught his from the Morail at 7lb.

On Saturday Alasdair Mackie caught 1 in Gardners weighing 7lb.

March started off well on the Carron with around 30 salmon off the river which was as good as anywhere in Scotland but with the water temperature being high for the spring the fish did not stop more than a day or two below the Morail falls. The fish could have gone over the Morail falls on the 21st of March and were then in the Glencalvie falls on the 5th of April. Most years that could be a month early.

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Jul 22
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Week of the 26th June

Tags : #Firstfish Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

Again the forecast promised us rain every day and again it was wrong!!

With minus 15″ on the gauge the Munro Ford party did exceptionally well in their first week at Braelangwell with 4 grilse for the week.

On Monday Rollo Grandy caught 1 from Upper Craigs on a small black Francis with a couple of sea lice on it.

On Wednesday Jemima Grandy caught a fresh grilse from the neck of the Washerwoman.

Fishing after dinner on Friday night Jim Browne caught a nice 2lb sea trout.

We had a small rise on Friday night and 2 fresh grilse were caught on Saturday. Jos Clarke caught 1 in Gardners and Adriana Navarrete caught her first fish from the neck of Millers.

28
Jun 22
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Week of the 19th June

Tags : Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

There was some rain at the weekend giving a small rise in the water height for Monday morning. Jimmy Royds caught a grilse in Contractors on a hitch and Liliana Sykes caught another grilse in the neck of the Washerwoman skating a sunray across the surface. There was minus 8″ on the gauge.

On Tuesday we were down to minus 11″ but another two were added to the book. Mark Butler caught a grilse in Keepers on a stoats tail and Clare MacInnes caught a grilse in the neck of Millers on a small red francis.

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Jun 22
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Spring 2022

Tags : #catchandrelease #flyfishing #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

Although Daniel Logie got the Carron off the mark on the 1st of February with a springer from the tail of the Morail on the Gruinards side it was the 17th of February before Finlay caught our first fish, a 17lber, again from the tail of the morail.

The water dropped off for most of March but Jean Matterson saved a blank month with a springer from the Washerwoman with about minus 14″ on the gauge.

April saw 19 salmon landed with many more lost. The best week was the week of the 3rd with 13 landed on this side. Our tenant, Olly Alston also had Gruinards opposite and 2 rods on Dounie and between the three beats, they had 34 to between 5 and 7 rods.

We caught 39 salmon for May with the week of the 8th being the best. Nick Jupps’s party landed 13 for their week. Again most of the month was dry saved by good water between the 26th and the 3rd of June.

Nicky Griffiths’s part caught 7 and Rob Sloss’s caught 8 to the 31st and 11 for the week including the first grilse on the 1st from Contractors.

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